Retour d’expériences sur l’intégration de la mixité à l’échelle des opérations d’aménagement
Innovative Urban Projects and New Business Models
Le « making of » de la genèse d’un quartier
L'Incubateur de la Ville durable (IVD)
The Challenge of New Urban Fabric Facing Planners
Network of Mediterranean Planners, 2015 Annual Conference
Beyond Organization, the Eco-neighborhood of the Union
Building the Sustainable Mediterranean Cities of Tomorrow - Conference PowerPoint
Building the Sustainable Mediterranean Cities of Tomorrow - Conference Summary
[Regional Conference] Sustainable Mediterranean Cities of Tomorrow: Innovative Urban Projects and New Business Models
Dec 03, 2015 / Highlight
Network of Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Developers: 4th Annual Conference
Lead Organization(s)
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
EPA Euroméditerranée (EPAEM)
Partners
Co-organizing & hosting the event:
OCEMO (in the context of the Mediterranean Economic Week)
SERM : Montpellier metropolis urban authorities...
Towards a Mediterranean Energy Market - Agenda
Knowledge Exchange Platforms as Climate Finance Access Tools in the Mediterranean: Some Examples
Nov 25, 2015 / Library
Although very vulnerable to the effects of climate change, the countries of the southern Mediterranean shore are struggling to implement climate change mitigation and adaptation programs. Climate investment scale-up is necessary, together with better targeting of financing and eliminating investment barriers, to ensure sustainable development and...
Morocco to Make History with First-of-Its-Kind Solar Plant
Nov 24, 2015 / Blog entry
Morocco is poised to make history soon — when the first phase of one of the world’s largest concentrated solar power plants starts generating electricity. When fully operational, it will produce enough energy for more than one million Moroccans, with possibly extra power to export to Europe.
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#MyClimateMySolution, #MonClimatMaSolution, #مناخي_مسؤوليّتي
Nov 24, 2015 / Library
#MyClimateMySolution is an interactive social media campaign amplifying youth’s solutions to climate issues. It was first launched during the Mediterranean Climate Summit (MEDCOP21) in Marseille. See more.
Green Growth in the Middle East and North Africa
Nov 24, 2015 / Library
While the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continues to play a pivotal role as the world’s supplier of oil and, to a lesser extent gas, the collapse in global oil prices since mid-2014 has refocused the debate on the region’s ability to use oil revenues to build sustainable and diversified economies that can one day function without oil, or at...
Green Growth: Putting Morocco in the Lead against Climate Change
Nov 24, 2015 / Blog entry
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Morocco’s vision of inclusive green growth is based on better management of natural resources to generate more jobs, value and wellbeing from existing assets.
The end of fossil fuel subsidies has favored an increase in renewable energy investments and allowed government spending on social programs to go up.
Strategies for...
Mourad Ezzine on Climate Change, Economy and Migration
Nov 24, 2015 / Library
Mourad Ezzine, Manager of the Center for Mediterranean Integration talks about the impacts of climate change on the Middle east and north Africa region and what measures can be taken: "There is a difference between development and wealth: Wealth can disappear very quickly. However, having a functioning education and justice system, a solid health...
Environment Regional Governance and Knowledge Generation Project Final Seminar
Oct 14, 2015 / Highlight
Antibes, France, 29-30 September, 2015: Participants from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and the Palestinian Territories along with representatives of Plan Bleu, the project's implementing agency, and the CMI-co-financing partner- convened for the final results seminar of the Regional governance and knowledge generation project (ReGoKo). The...
Energizing our Green Future
Oct 06, 2015 / Blog entry
As world leaders come together at the UN General Assembly to adopt new sustainable development goals, climate change activists gear up for Climate Week in New York City and the Pope brings his message to the United Nations, a shared vision of our future is coming into clear focus.
If we are to eradicate poverty, we need to tackle climate...
[World Bank E-Learning Course] Infrastructure Financing through PPPs in MENA Region
Oct 01, 2015 / Highlight
This webinar discusses how Public Private Partnerships (PPP) can be a mode for infrastructure financing, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Topics to be covered include:
Trends in the MENA region on PPPs
Structuring considerations on PPP projects
Common pitfalls on PPP projects and programs
What makes a...
High-Level Workshop - "The Evolving Regional Urban Agenda: Focus on Municipal Finance"
Sep 17, 2015 / Program
The World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) are organizing the workshop: Urbanization Knowledge Exchange to Support MENA Stakeholders "The Evolving Regional Urban Agenda: Focus on Municipal Finance" in Rabat, Morocco on March 18-19, 2013.
The workshop brings together mayors and urban development leaders from Egypt, Jordan,...
[High-Level Workshop] Launch of the MENA Urbanization Knowledge Platform
Sep 17, 2015 / Highlight
The Urbanization Knowledge Platform (UKP) for the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) stems from a partnership between Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), the World Bank (WB), and the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI). The Platform was officially launched on September 17-18, 2012, during a high-level workshop entitled “...
Call for Green Entrepreneurs: SwitchMed Training Programme in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine
Sep 14, 2015 / Highlight
Are you a green entrepreneur? Do you want to launch in the market a new green product or service but you don't know where to start? Would you like to learn how to develop a green business model that creates environmental and social value?
Apply to one of the first highly qualified green entrepreneurship training programme in the...
Projected Impacts of Climate Change in MENA
Le cluster solaire/MCIC, un outil pour appuyer le developpement industriel vert
Feuille de route pour la transition énergétique dans le batiment en Mediterranée
I Have a Dream: The fight against Climate Change & Economic Development are Not Incompatible
Jul 31, 2015 / Blog entry
The common view is that climate change exacerbates poverty and hurts economic growth. Economic development has contributed to an unsustainable rise in the greenhouse gas emissions that are destabilising the global climate system. There is now a consensus that climate change affects development and challenges the ability to eradicate poverty....
L’eau en Afrique : à Quel Prix?
Qui paie quoi en matière de transport urbain ? Guide de bonnes pratiques
Jul 31, 2015 / Library
Le présent “Guide de bonnes pratiques de financement du transport urbain” met en relief, sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, des expériences significatives de mobilisation des principales possibilités de financement du secteur. Il s’agit ainsi de fournir une base de référence à tout décideur, du Sud comme du Nord, qui serait amené à participer à la...
Facing Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean
Jul 31, 2015 / Library
Pressure on water resources has reached critical levels in many countries in the Mediterranean Basin. Sophisticated water mobilization strategies have been implemented but physical, financial and environmental constraints linked to such supply-side approach demonstrate that better management of already mobilized water is necessary. Acting upon...